Description:
ALTA IT Services is staffing a remote contract to hire opportunity for an AWS Cloud Engineer to support a federal end client.AWS Cloud Engineer
Contract to Hire
100% Remote
Pay: $50-55/hr W2
Must be USC
Active Public Trust is strongly preferred (minimum Public Trust eligible)
Responsibilities:
Our client is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to support our Federal client. Our client is in the process of modernizing and consolidating IT infrastructure, automating workloads, and pursuing next-generation innovation. We are seeing an AWS Cloud Engineer with experience in the design, development, and implementation of projects in the cloud. The ideal candidate is experienced in cloud-based tech, with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, and platforms, and the ability to customize them to help our client become more secure and efficient.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build a strong relationship with the development teams to understand the code, its dependencies, and the infrastructure on which it runs.
- Experience building cloud-based infrastructure solutions in AWS with a strong governance model knowledge.
- Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management, and release management.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that automate all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications in AWS.
- Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document the problem, and implement preventive measures.
- Maintain technical system documentation as needed for audits and compliance.
- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to team members to build cloud competencies.
- Keep abreast of industry white papers & informed of industry direction and best practices.
- Work with the project teams in support of creating and participating in building customer briefings.
- Ability to facilitate customer briefings inclusive of putting together materials and presentations
Qualifications:
Education and Years of Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in business, information technology, computer science, engineering, or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of experience working in a DevOps environment
- 3+ years of experience with containers on AWS including ECS, EKS, and/or Fargate.
Required and Desired Skills/Certifications:
- AWS Certification (e.g., Cloud Architect Associate, DevOps Engineer, Developer, SysOps Administrator)
- Experience with the AWS Console, CLI, and SDK.
- Experience with source code management tools such as Git, GitLab, and GitHub.
- Proficiency in cross-platform scripting languages (Python, Bash, JavaScript, Ruby)
- Experience with DevOps build tools including Maven, Gradle, and Ant.
- Experience deploying and administering continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, TFS, GitLab, GitHub, or Bamboo.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK,
- Proficiency with at least one technology language like Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, or Python.
- Proficiency in at least 1 object-oriented programming language such as Java or C#.
- Knowledge of security and performance best practices for cloud architectures.
- Ability to define and build scalable CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of deployment strategies for containerization.
- Strong understanding of network and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, and HTTP.
- Ability to independently investigate, troubleshoot, design, and develop solutions.
- Ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of architects, developers, business analysts, quality assurance testers, and subject matter experts.
- Detail-oriented and extremely efficient.
- Strong written and oral communication skills to interact with business and technology teams.
- Strong understanding and experience operating in an agile development environment.
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Apr 10, 2024;
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